Refrigerator



(No Model.)

J. .H. WINDISOH.

v REETRIGERATOR.

No. 399,307. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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UNITED, STATES PATENT JOHN H. IVINDISOH, OF OAK HARBOR, OHIO.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,307, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed June 29, 1888- Serial No. 278,569. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that L'JOHN H. Wnvnrscrna citizen of the United States, residing at Oak Harbor, in the county of Ottawa and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in refrigerators, having for its object to provide a simple, cheap, and easily-operated device which may be placed in a cavity in the ground, and is designed to have vegetables, dairy products, and other articles which must be kept cool and out of contact with the air stored therein.

The invention consists in a certain novel construction and arrangement of devices fully set forth and claimed hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 is a side view of a refrigerator embodying my improvements arranged in Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view of the same.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the receiver, which may be of any preferred form, (preferably cylindrical,) and is arranged in a cavity in the ground with its upper edge projecting slightly above the surface thereof, and B B designate vertical standards, which are bolted attheir lower ends to the diametrically-opposite sides of the receiver, and are provided at their upper .ends with bearings Z) l), in which is mounted the shaft 0, having a crank, c. A hook, D, is mounted on one of the-standards, and is adapted to engage the crank to hold it in any desired posit-ion.

E represents the elevator, which consists of the parallel shelves F F, arranged at suitable distances apart, and the vertical straps, G G, which are affixed to the edges of the shelves and hold tnem in the desired position, and II represents a reservoir, which is arranged between the upwardly-extending ends of the straps and is provided with the interior brackets, I I, on which rests the removable shelf or partition K, thereby forinthe same. This reservoir fits sufficiently tightly in the upper end of the receiver and to prevent heat from passing in any con siderable quantities to the interior of the receiver. The lower or closed chamber, L, of the reservoir is filled with water, and the upper chamber is filled with sawdust, charcoal, or other similar non -conductin'g material. The straps G G project slightly above the upper edge of this reservoir, and the conical cap N is affixed thereto and is adapted when the elevator is lowered into the receiver to close down tightly on the upper end of the latter, whereby insects, rain, &c., are excluded. Being conical in shape the water is prevented from remaining on the cap N, and as its edges overlap or extend beyond the upper edges of the receiver the rain cannot penetrate between the cap and the edge of the receiver.

A chain or cord, 0, is affixed to the center of the cap N, and is extended up and wound on a drum, P, at the center of the shaft C, whereby when it is desired to raise the elevator to obtain access to the contents of the shelves thereof it is simply necessary to rotate the drum by means of the crank 011 the end of the shaft.

Inasmuch as the temperature of the earth below the surface islo wer in summer than the outside air, theinterior of the receiver will be kept cool, and will thus preserve articles which are placed on the elevator below the non-conducting reservoir.

The shelves are preferably secured to the vertical straps G G by means of small angleirons ff, the arms f f of which are riveted or bolted respectively to the straps and the under sides of the shelves, and the cap N is secured to the upper ends of the said straps by bending the straps inward and either bolting or riveting them thereto, as clearly shown in the drawings.

Having described my invention, I claim In a refrigerator, the combination, with the receiver adapted to be arranged below the surface of the ground, of the elevator comprising the parallel shelves F F, held in position by the side straps, G G, the cap N, affixed to the upper ends of the straps and adapted to fitover the upper end of the receiver when I In testimony that I claim the foregoing as the elevator is lowered, and the reservoir H, my own I havehereto aflixed my signature in [0 arranged between the straps G, below the cap presence of two witnesses. N, and provided with a removableshelf or V ,7 T A 5 partition, K, arrangedon suitab1ebraokets,II, JOHN W IBDISC'H' whereby separated chambers L and M are Witnesses: formed, substantially and for the purpose D. A. KRAEMER, specified. I C. H. STEWART. 

